Tertulia

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As Tertulia one called on the Iberian Peninsula and in Latin America , especially in the second half of the 19th and in the first half of the 20th century spread Stammtisch like meeting artistic or intellectual nature.

There is a certain affinity to the literary salon ; however, the majority of the - usually male-dominated - tertulias gathered in public places such as bars or cafes; There was an exchange of books, readings, and a certain political and aesthetic equality could be observed.

history

Statue for Torrente Ballester in Cafe Novelty in the Plaza Mayor of Salamanca , by Fernando Mayoral .

The word is derived from the polemical theologian Tertullian and is said to have its origins in the literary academies of the Siglo de Oro . In the 18th century, the Academia del Trípode in Granada and the Tertulia de la Fonda de San Sebastián were famous.

The first third of the 20th century was particularly rich in tertulias. For Madrid, those in the Nuevo Café de Levante and the Café de Fornos should be mentioned, among others ; important cafés with tertulias were also the Café de Gato Negro or the Café Colonial ; José Ortega y Gasset had his tertulia in the La Granja del Henar café; there was the Café Marfil , the Café la Ballena Alegre , where José Antonio Primo de Rivera and his Falangists met, the Café del Prado and the Café El Español , where the brothers Manuel and Antonio Machado frequented. Tertulias took place in Café Gijón until after the Spanish Civil War .

Tertulias were also in the province. In Salamanca , for example , in Café Novelty , writers such as Miguel de Unamuno , Ortega y Gasset , Carmen Martín Gaite , Francisco Umbral and Torrente Ballester met from 1905 .

literature

  • Antonio Espina: Las tertulias de Madrid. Alianza Editorial, Madrid 1995, ISBN 84-206-3279-1 .
  • Andreas Gelz: Tertulia. Literature and Sociability in Spain in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Vervuert, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-86527-300-0 .

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